paternoster

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Then he said compline with paternoster, avemaria_, and credo_, signed himself with the cross, and lay down on his kirtle--_specialissimus_, darling of God--and drew the second kirtle over his body for fear of the dews and the night vapours; and so went to sleep, striving not to think of where he had slept last night.

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  1. noun The Lord's Prayer.
  2. noun One of the large beads on a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said.
  3. noun A sequence of words spoken as a prayer or a magic formula.
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  • In order to get students to the many floors in time for lectures the building uses a paternoster, a lift that consists of 38 cars moving on a continuous belt, so that passengers must ascend and alight with just the right timing at their chosen floor.It is common knowledge at the university that paternoster comes from the Latin for 'Our Father'.
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  • I looked up 'calico' yet I still have no idea what you're talking about. thebillmac3 1 point 16 seconds ago thebillmac3 1 point 16 seconds ago illuminusluna 3 points 1 hour ago illuminusluna 3 points 1 hour ago el-bombero 1 point 11 minutes ago paternoster 1 point 50 minutes ago paternoster 1 point 50 minutes ago doublejay1999 6 points 1 hour ago doublejay1999 6 points 1 hour ago —  reddit.com: what's new online!
  • These rarely took a minnow, but a gudgeon on the paternoster, and on the upper hook thereof, frequently proved fatal to a two-pounder. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
  • X., seven belts of paternosters were to be said the prayers being numbered probably by studs fixed on the girdle But St. Dominic invented the rosary, which contains ten lesser beads representing Ave Marias, to one larger standing for a paternoster REPLIES BROAD ARROW Vol. —  Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin : Latin pater, father; see pater + Latin noster, our; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English paternoster = French patenôtre (also pater) = Provencal paternostre, patrenostre = Spanish padrenuestro = Portuguese padre nosso = Italian padre nostro, from Middle Latin paternoster, from Latin pater noster, the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin: pater, father (see father); noster, our: see nostrum.
  2. paternoster, n.
 

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/peɪtərˈnɑstər/
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